Register and alarm.



No. 703,632. Patented sept. 9, |902..

L. E. FUGATE.

REGISTER AND- ALARM. (Application mea .un 2s, 1902.)

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No. 708,632. 'Patented Sent. 9, 1902.

L. E. FUGATE.

REGISTER AND ALARM.

(Application led Jan. 28, 1902.)

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Mrzvfsses UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

LAKE E. FUGATE, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

REGISTER AND ALARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 708,632, datedSeptember 9, 1902.

Application led January Z8, 1902. Serial No. 91,560. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom tr may concern:

Be it known that I, LAKE E. FUGATE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of IVashington,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway SpeedCounters, Registers, and Alarms, of which the following is aspecification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to railway-locomotives, its object being tofurnish a reliable speed-meter and distance-counter and also to providewarning-signal, which is automatically actuated at a predeterminedlocation, whereby there will be no mistake in running by a switch orsiding, thus preventing many collisions upon railways due to theengineer misconstruing or forgetting orders.

The invention consists in the novel arrangement and combination of partshereinafter described, illustrated in the drawings, and finally pointedout in the claims.

In the said drawings, where similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all of the Views, Figure l represents a Verticalfront View of a device embodying my invention, the train of gears beingshown somewhat diagrammatic. Fig. 2 represents a central verticalcross-section. Eig. 3 represents a horizontal section through line 3 3of Figs. l and 2, and Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view taken on line 44 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out my invention I secure to one of the car-wheels or itsaxle h a bevelpinion c, which communicates rotary motion throughbevel-gearsl c' c", shafts d d', and a worm d" Vto a train of gearsconsisting of pinions e and wheels e', mounted on arbors journaled in asuitable frame, as f. The said train of pinions and gear-wheels are soproportioned one to the other and to the aforesaid geared connectionwith the car-wheel axle that the arbor g, carrying an index-finger g',will revolve the latter to indicate upon a stationary graduated circularplate or dial h the number of miles which the actuating carwheel rolls,a removable annular card t' having the names of the severalstations,switches, or turnouts situated upon the railway-line markedthereon at angular distances corresponding to their true distancesapart, according to the scale of the graduate-marks upon the adjacentedge of the said fixed dial-plate 7L. Mounted upon the arbor g is ascrewthreaded sleeve i, which forms an arbor for a pointer-finger t" anda bell-cranky' and are clamped thereto by a nutj. A lever 7e, fulcurmedat 7o', engages by one of its arms with a stop j", while its other armconnects by rod Zwith swinging journal-boxes m, hinged at m to theframe. n is a friction-wheel with its arbor 'n' extending through saidboxes m and provided upon its lower extremity with a crank-arm n,adapted to intermittently engage and release a wiper-plate arm o of ahammer o when it is rotated by a paper or rubber friction-wheel C uponthe shaft d.

p is a gong.

w is the containing-case.

A supplemental train of gears 7' o" actuate from one of the arbors ofthe aforesaid train of gears a speed-meter iinger r, which revolvesabout a recessed circular' dial s, preferably positioned upon the maindial-plate h. The finger r is arranged to be engaged with its arbor bythumb-pressure thereon, which clutches the same byfriction devicecomprising two disks t t', kept apart bya spring t", so that theengineer may instantly throw the finger r into or out of gear by simplypressing thereupon or releasing it. The graduatemarks and index-figuresof the dial s are so disposed that its finger will pass the severalmiles and fractional parts thereof as marked upon the dial at the samerate proportionally to the interval of time-say fifteen secondsthat thetrain itself will travel in a given period, as an hour.

The operation of the device is as follows: The index-finger g and theplace of departure marked upon the station-card lare moved about theircenter until they register with the zero-mark upon the dial h. Thepointer t" is next moved around from left to right, or in a reversedirection to which the hands of a clock travel, until it reaches thepoint at which it is desired an alarm should be rungas, for instance,where the train is to be sidetrackedand in thus moving the finger thetoe upon the bell-cranky' engages with the lever 7c and draws thefriction-wheel n from its mate t Then when the train begins to move thewheels will rotate, pointing oif the miles step by step, so to speak,until the in- IOC dex-finger g' comes in contact with a lug upon thepointer i', which, interfering therewith, is moved thereby, as Well asthe crank and its toe, when through the action of a spring q providedthe wheel n is drawn into frictional contact with the rotating wheel d",which rings the alarm.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire tosecure byLetfers Patent, is-

1. A combined speed counter, register, and alarm, consistingrespectively of a stationary graduated dial, an index-fi nger, means torevolve said finger from the rotating of one of the Wheels of the car;another dial having graduate-marks thereon, an indexfinger, means toengage or disengage said finger from its connecting mechanism; and analarm-bell and means to ring the saine from a pointer set at any desiredlocation upon the first-mentioned dial, and adapted to being engaged bythe first-named index-linger, and operative connection between the saidbell and the said pointer, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

2. The combination with a car-wheel axle, of a stationary dial havinggraduate-marks thereon, a train of gears, connection between the saidaxle and the train of wheels for operating the latter, an index-fingeractuated by said train of wheels, a set hand or pointer loosely mountedon a sleeve upon the arbor of the aforesaid index-finger, a bell-crankprovided with a stop hung upon said sleeve, means to clamp the saidpointer and bellcrank to said sleeve, an alarm-bell, a frictionpulleymounted upon an arbor journaled in swinging boxes, connection betweensaid swinging boxes and the said bell-crank lever such connection beinga lever and a reachrod, a bell-hammer, a crank upon said friction-wheelarbor for vibrating said hammer, a friction-wheel mounted upon theconnection between said axle and the said train, aV

movable annular card having the railwaystations marked thereon; and aspeed-meter comprising a graduated dial, an index-finger, gearedconnection between one of the arbors of the aforementioned train and thelastnamed index-linger, and means to engage or disconnect said fingerfrom its gear-train, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LAKE E. FUGATE. Witnesses:

PIERRE BARNES, JOHN N. PERKINS.

